I was just up in Vermont for a visit and stopped in for a look at Hubert d’Autremont’s bike frame shop in Burlington. Back when Hubert and I worked at Old Spokes Home he set up a little shop in his garage where he would make frames and host drunken bike-fixing sessions with OSH people that sometimes interfered with coworker/landlord/housemate Mike McDonald’s “early to bed” lifestyle.

He eventually moved to a much larger and awesomer space, and he’s been turning out some really nice frames. One of the projects he’s working on now is a track frame for Derek McIntyre, a fellow Old Spokes mechanic and guitarist for the local hardcore band Unrestrained.

Hubert’s also experimenting with making his own lugs. Apparently there aren’t many widely-available lug designs for modern 1-1/8 inch tubes so custom-made lug blanks like these open up the possibilities for unique lug designs.